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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does line 10 say "Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume" do "here" (line 9)?
(a) Break.
(b) Soar.
(c) Stir.
(d) Buckle.

2. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A falconer.
(b) A knight.
(c) A bird.
(d) A horse.

3. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Atanaclasis.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Anaphora.

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Oxymoron.

5. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Hypnotic.
(c) Sanctified.
(d) Rapturous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

2. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

4. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

5. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

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